Shayna Papke

Founded and lead a full-service Colorado event planning and production company delivering weddings, private celebrations, nonprofit events, corporate functions, and guest experiences.

• Lead complex events from concept through budgeting, contracting, creative development, production planning, staffing, onsite execution, and final reconciliation.
• Translate creative vision and stakeholder goals into actionable production plans, including budgets, schedules, logistics, vendor scopes, staffing, guest experience, and contingency planning.
• Manage long-term client and stakeholder relationships across concurrent projects, overseeing communication, expectations, documentation, deadlines, and deliverables throughout 12–18-month planning cycles.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams of venues, hospitality partners, creative professionals, production vendors, contractors, transportation providers, and event staff, while building lasting industry partnerships.
• Negotiate contracts, manage vendor scopes and budgets, track deliverables, and adapt plans in real time to changing production and operational needs.
• Recruit, train, schedule, and lead event teams while directing onsite operations, installations, programming transitions, guest experience, troubleshooting, and breakdown.
• Develop operational systems, workflows, templates, and processes while overseeing business operations, financial administration, client acquisition, marketing, and strategic partnerships.

• Provided administrative and operational support for a nonprofit family advocacy organization, including scheduling, correspondence, records, organization, and general office operations.

Supported fundraising, sponsorships, donor relations, community engagement, special events, and development operations for a nonprofit healthcare organization.

• Built and maintained relationships with donors, sponsors, volunteers, businesses, foundations, community members, and organizational partners.
• Coordinated fundraising campaigns and donor stewardship, including appeals, acknowledgments, communications, prospect research, records management, and follow-up.
• Supported special events through sponsor and volunteer recruitment, logistics, budgets, and cross-functional coordination.
• Partnered with marketing and organizational leadership on campaigns to increase awareness, community engagement, and philanthropic support.
• Assisted with fundraising strategy, financial tracking, revenue projections, and development budgets across individual, corporate, foundation, and grant-based giving.

• Provided front-line service and administrative support in a busy nonprofit healthcare environment.